“When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.” RememberCoursesSawsTeacherStudentsPaidUniversityStoresAdsMinimumGroceriesMinimum WageGrocery StoresPart TimePrepsPrincetonPrinceton University Author:John Katzman
“In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. So we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.” GivingChildrenEducationPovertyTeacherOffersPaidBarsClassroomQualifiedOutdatedUnqualifiedUnderpaid Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny fraction of what Wall Streeters are paid.” HumansImportantTeacherWallPaidFinancialTinyFractions Author:Robert Reich
“The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.” ChildrenStillsCharacterAbleEducationClassTeacherTeachingInformationProtectDeserveImportancePaidMajorityIndividualityInsignificantPupilsImpartSmall Child Book:A Montessori Mother Source: A Montessori Mother
“I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.” ThinkingWellsLeftTeacherOughtVotePaidGreedCorporateCorporate Greed Author:Eleanor Catton
“Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.” PayTeacherPaidAdversityProfitInstructionGreat Teacher Author:Elizabeth Hardwick
“I wished that teachers were the highest paid people in Israel.” PeopleTeacherHighestPaidIsrael Author:Arnon Milchan
“I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.” NeedsSchoolAmericaTermFocusTeacherNeededPaidFundingDeserving Author:Sarah Palin
“I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they weren't in sequence; kept out of classes with people I knew from high school, because I tended to act like the class clown around them; selected teachers by their teaching style - until I could build up my study habits. I ended up graduating with a 3.97 GPA and got into Harvard for my doctorate.” PeopleIfsSchoolCoursesAttentionClassStudyTeacherTeachingStyleCollegeHabitHigh SchoolPaidLocalsGraduatesClownSequenceHarvardSelectedDoctoratesGpa Author:L. Todd Rose